FORT WORTH - Saturday’s marathon at the Cliburn piano competition finals continued at 7:30 with Di Wu of China, who opened with J.S. Bach’s Toccata in F-sharp minor, BWV 910. She gave it a lovely, light, accurate and transporting account, then went straight to Schoenberg’s Klavierstucke, op. 11. It was an interesting pairing, with Wu, playing with a delicate touch, found beauty in spikiness and then built to energetic heights, ending like an incomplete thought.

Wu gave the third and best rendition of Ravel’s Gaspard du nuit, with a near-perfect blend of sensitivity, strength and power where needed, and nothing at all misjudged.

Evgeni Bozhanov of Bulgaria strode out onstage to play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor with tremendous self-assurance — misplaced self-assurance, as it turned out, and he turned out a remarkably misconceived reading of the score.

It’s not just that he sometimes bangs as if seeking the harshest possible tone from his instrument. In the first movement, Bozhanov seemed to be playing a different performance than conductor James Conlon and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra; not only was he not collaborative, he took a different tempo, for a completely disjointed and disconcerting performance. Bozhanov is hugely gifted, but his self-assurance sometimes seems like arrogance, and he was totally off the track in this bizarre version of Rachmaninoff’s music.

Mariangela Vacatello of Italy brought the evening back to a sense of balance with a splendid performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major. She plays with great facility, fine technique and understanding of the score, for a performance that was the best yet of the large concertos.

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